VocalZoom, a leading supplier of human-to-machine communication (HMC) optical sensors that enable a more natural, personalized and secure voice-control experience, recently announced it has completed the final stage of design work with iFLY TEK, the supplier of China’s most popular speech-recognition platform. Read more on The Jerusalem Post...
Read MoreEffective voice recognition in real-world environments is hard for at least two reasons. First, the voice-recognition system has to be able to recognize words with a very high degree of accuracy. Second, the system has to be able to identify and isolate the speaker in environments where there is a good deal of ambient noise. Microsoft has recently published a technical paper in which they present a system that is capable of solving the first problem. VocalZoom has developed an intriguing approach to solving the second. Read more on Forbes...
Read MoreLed by Menlo Park-based Bessemer Venture Partners, Oryx raised $17 million in a Series A round to accelerate R&D for sensors based on its “coherent optical radar” system. Additional investors included Maniv Mobility and Trucks Venture Capital, while Bessemer partner Adam Fisher joins Oryx’s board as it staffs up and moves out of the lab to commercialization. If all goes well, that happens around 2020, according to CEO and co-founder Rani Wellingstein. Read more on Forbes...
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As this past month Israel marked a new year, we too are celebrating a new opportunity at OurCrowd. We’re excited to welcome a new member to the OurCrowd team — Michael Ben-Nun, who joins us as a Venture Partner! Michael brings 35 years of experience providing technical, strategic, and operational leadership in the Israeli and US high-tech sectors, including various managerial positions. This vast experience will allow Michael to identify exciting startups for OurCrowd to invest in and help them become successful companies. Being an innovation and entrepreneur enthusiast, I am thrilled to join the OurCrowd team. I am excited to help expand the tech ecosystem with more talent, help the next wave of startups scale, and continue to democratize access to early stage investments.” ~ Michael Ben-Nun Michael began his career as a developer of the first 32-bit processor at National Semiconductors. He was also a distinguished engineer at DEC, managing development groups of various VLSI devices in the area of storage and networking. After several key positions with multi-national high-tech corporations, Michael joined P-cube, the leader of service control platform for Internet service providers,...
Read MoreToday Influitive, the advocate marketing experts, announced the addition of David Priemer as Vice President of Sales to scale and systematize the company’s sales operations for predictable, rapid revenue growth. David, a scientist turned four-time tech entrepreneur, joins Influitive from Salesforce, where he was the Vice President of Commercial Sales and resident growth evangelist as Principal of Salesforce’s Leadership Academy. Previously, he was a founding member and Vice President of Sales at Rypple (acquired by Salesforce). Read more on PR Newswire...
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